Collective processes in liquid-phase reaction sintering

An experimental thermokinetic study of reaction sintering reveals that there are various irreversible paths in a nonequilibrium system. When the external temperature is in the contact melting range and the equilibrium condition of the mixture is in the solid-state range, the thermokinetic path is usually exponential with abrupt increase in the temperature and volume of the samples. Active compaction is observed in the case of thermokinetic oscillations